Matt Salmon: “One nation turning away from the peaceful mechanisms of international law and peaceful coexistence and instead embracing…”

China's actions in the South China Sea continue to raise the risk of conflict while simultaneously jeopardizing the international rights, freedoms, and order.

I wish for a speedy recovery for the Sri Lankan people and hope our newly invigorated development relationship that we're going to discuss today can help meet some of the challenges left in the wake of the storm.

I think that the logic of that threat is persuasively in favor of an additional agreement between the two militaries.

I commend the administration for pursuing deployment of THAAD in South Korea. I think it is incredibly important.